Why sorting is harder than it seems

5 points by dsagal 3 years ago · 2 comments

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pestatije 3 years ago

The problem at hand is not sorting but type safety...brought to you by javascript

dsagalOP 3 years ago
It's not quite type safety, it's all about order, and it's definitely not specific to Javascript. Here's Python3:
```
  >>> sorted([10, 2, math.nan])
  [2, 10, nan]
  >>> sorted([10, math.nan, 2])
  [10, nan, 2]
```